LORETO HIGH SCHOOL, LIMURU.
ENGLISH
FORM TWO
OPENER CAT TERM 2 2025
Name …………………………………………………………………Date……………………
CLASS……………………………… ADM ……………………………. CLASS NO ………………
TIME: 2HRS
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES
1. Write your details in the spaces provided above.
2. Answer all the questions in this paper.
3. Answer the questions in English.
EXAMINER’S USE ONLY
QUESTION MARKS CANDIDATE’S SCORE
1 20
2 20
3 20
TOTAL 60
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1. Imaginative Composition (20 marks)
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a) Write a story with the following beginning:
The moment I entered the room, I decided to say the whole truth.
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2. Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow.
(20mks)
The Town Beauty
There she lay in a pool of blood,
Speared and maimed
Mute and lifeless
Base and worthless
There she lay, the butchered woman,
The butchered woman, daughter of a chief,
The daughter of a chief, the town beauty,
Silenced by the rage of a spear.
She lay in a pool of blood, nude as she was born,
Fierce, as if hours ago not lovely to touch,
Already beginning to steam like fresh dung:
No one knew she was daughter of a chief.
She lay mid a group of frightened women-
Women who were mad with grief.
Men that were there fumed with fury
That a beauty should enter the ground so young.
There she lay, silenced for ever,
With her beauty crossed,
Her eyes for ever shut to the world;
Soon the ground was to swallow her.
M.Namungalu
a) Identify the persona in the poem. (2mks)
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b) Explain what happened to the daughter of the chief. (3mks)
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c) Pick out any two aspects of style in the poem and explain their functions.
(6mks)
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d) Explain the meaning of the following lines in the poem. (4mks)
(i) Silenced by the rage of a spear.
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(ii) That a beauty should enter the ground so young.
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e) Comment on the political organization of the town. (2mks)
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f) What are the different feelings experienced by the different people in the
poem? (3mks)
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4. GRAMMAR (15 MARKS)
a) Rewrite the following sentences as instructed. Do not change the
meaning. (4mks)
(i) The teacher talked louder and louder. The class paid less and less attention
to him (Rewrite as one beginning: The louder...)
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(ii)He told his teacher he had made a mistake. (Begin: He admitted...)
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(iii) What long hair you have! (Rewrite to end with ‘is’)
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(iv) ‘’Are you taking part in the walk? My father asked. ‘Rewrite in indirect
speech
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b) Fill in the blank spaces below using the most suitable preposition.
(2mks)
(i) My father told me that he would be arriving in
Kenya............................December 24th 2024.
(ii) There is no exemption................................this rule.
C) Rewrite the following sentences as instructed.
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(i) The council of governors has been looking into the matter. (End ...council of
governors)
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(ii) Water has been carried by the cooks (Begin: The cook...)
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d) Complete the following idiomatic expressions.
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(i) After the group discussion, the chairperson told everyone in class
to.........................it a day.
(ii)It is raining cats and ..................................and my new puppy is very scared.
e) Use the correct form of the word in brackets to complete each of the following
sentences. 4mks
a. Owen did not know that the tree had ……………………………. his house. (Strike)
b. The three………………………………………… were arrested. (Passer-by)
c. She has spent a lot of time …………………………………………. her compound.
(Beautiful)
d. Telling him to wait outside in the rain was very ......................................(courtesy) of
you.
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f) Fill in the blank space with the correct alternative from the given choices.
2mks.
a. Neither Tom nor his friend …………………. there. (was / were)
b. Vivian is one of the people who ……………… always in a hurry. (are/is)
g) Explain the difference in meaning between the following sentences. 2mks
a. Has the donkey eaten Mary?
b. Has the donkey eaten, Mary?
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h) Replace the phrasal verb underlined with one word similar in meaning.
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a. He had his dog put down because it was in a lot of pain from its tumors.
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b. The project has really eaten into my savings.
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